Robert Jenrick on Planning for the Future: The Housing Secretary’s full Creating Communities Conference speech
A full transcript of Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick’s speech, as delivered at the Creating Communities Conference on 21 September 2020.
Create Streets founder to lead the government’s new planning design body
Nicholas Boys Smith has been tasked with coming up with guidance to help planners come up with local design codes.
78% of councillors think that proposed reforms would make planning ‘less democratic’
A “radical” overhaul of the English planning regime, outlined by the Government in August, would make the system worse, according to a survey of 315 local councillors…
Winkworth brings in Stackhouse to lead new development & commercial investments team
National estate agency looks to capitalise on the ‘huge opportunities’ being created by the Government’s planning reforms with an all-new division headed up by Bective’s Adam Stackhouse.
Mapped: Planning permission hotspots
London planners are less likely to give a green-light than authorities in any other UK region, according to some research by Comparethemarket.
The Pitfalls of Burrowing: On the dark art of negotiating non-negligence claims
HNW insurance specialist Dominic Cunningham explains why carrying out refurbishment and extension projects in Prime Central London can be a risky business, and what developers can do to safeguard themselves…
Lichfields recruits London planning veteran
Michael Lowndes has joined top planning consultancy Lichfields as Senior Director in the Major Projects team.
London could be given ‘partial exemption’ from new planning rules
The Prime Minister has suggested that the capital could be offered a “carve-out” from some new Permitted Development Rights.
Newt-counting planning tweak adds up in Essex
A shift from site-by-site to district-level building licenses has proved a boon for great crested newts, as property developers facilitate the creation of more pond habitats.
The truth about local opposition to housebuilding
Although opposition to development may sometimes slow things down as politicians try to avoid unpopular decisions, its effects on housebuilding are far from clear, explains Andy Inch…
Planners mull John Pardey-designed project in Surrey Hills AONB
830 square metre replacement house proposed for incredible 10.6ha site in a highly protected landscape.
Luxury ‘later life’ scheme approved for Kensington’s Heythrop College site
Auriens’ KPF-designed super-prime retirement scheme in W8 has been given the go-ahead, having previously been refused by the Mayor of London.